Overview

For many social work users and social work professionals, shame is an ongoing part of their daily experience.  This book provides an in-depth examination of the complex experiences of shame and stigma for social work practitioners and service users, explores key contextual issues and theoretical approaches to understanding shame and demonstrates how social workers can ameliorate its impact through sensitive, reflective and relationship-based practice. Using original international research, it provides the tools to effectively challenge service user shame and includes innovative examples of writing by practitioners, who detail their personal experiences of how shame can be traded for resilience across diverse organisational and policy contexts.

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Author:   Mark Hardy (University of York) ,  Matthew Gibson (University of Birmingham, Department of Social Policy and Social Work) ,  Carsten Schroeder (Technical University of Dortmund) ,  Friederike Lorenz (Freie Universität Berlin)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447344063

ISBN 10:   1447344065
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   01 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part One: The Concept of Shame from Different Perspectives Making Sense of Shame Theory: A Possible Psychosocial Structure ~ Elisabeth Frost The sociology of shame ~ Sighard Neckel Shame as an Anthropological and Historical and Social Emotion ~ Veronika Magyar-Haas Part Two: Shame and Service Users Poverty as an Attack on Subjectivity: The Case of Shame, A Social Work Perspective ~ Holger Schoneville Interactions of Shame: Violence against Children and Residential Care ~ Marie Demant and Friederike Lorenz Emotional Labour in Social Work Practice and the Production of Shame in Service Users’ ~ Carsten Schröder Part Three: Shame and Social Workers Shame Regulation as Organisational Control: Evoking, Containing, and Diverting Shame to Create Compliance ~ Matthew Gibson Claim, Blame, Shame: How Risk Undermines Authenticity in Social Work ~ Mark Hardy Shame, Mistakes and Reflective Practice in Social Work ~ Alessandro Sicora

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Liz Frost is Associate Professor at the University of the West of England. Veronika Magyar-Haas is Professor in Educational Science at the University of Fribourg. Holger Schoneville is Senior Lecturer in social work at Dortmund University. Alessandro Sicora is Associate Professor and teaches social work at the University of Trento.

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